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This week I asked my Mum if she would like to contribute to my column. Her marks are in brackets. We do not agree on Single of the Week.
Single of the Week!
Battles feat. Matias Aguayo - 'Ice Cream' (Warp)
I was all for Battles before I saw their video, which seems to indicate that they do not think their song is enough, and that an artfully-styled flash of tit is required before we can take their song to our hearts. In fact, of course, it does the opposite, it makes me think they are the sort of apparently grown-up men who wish to represent themselves by using images of girls in their twenties dressed like teenagers from 1993. And they are licking flowers and lamp shades and ice creams as if they were DO YOU SEE DO YOU SEE DO YOU SEE ICE CREAM CONES ARE A BIT LIKE COCKS. Before you get excited and press play, I should point out that it is not even that rude; simply the latest bit of slightly disappointing and retrograde positioning to have hit mine eyes this week. As for the song, I am happy to tell you it is uncommonly brilliant, with lyrics apparently sung in Spanish, or possibly Portuguese, or possibly just nonsense, with a middle eight that employs Stereo Larks by forcing an amusing nerdy man telephone-tawking in your left ear, while a man sings dum-de-dum-dum-dum (along to the bassline) in your right. 'Ice Cream' is also available on the best looking Neapolitan vinyl triptych I have ever seen. Sadly the packaging isn't scratch'n'sniff - but as I am learning today, you can't have everything. As in: there are no cocks in the video. [6/10]
Toddla T feat. Shola Ama & J2K - 'Take It Back ' (Ninja Tune)
While I can recognise that Battles have made what is perhaps the most inventive song this week, Toddla T's tune makes me the happiest. And even though it is the sort of song that will provoke your friends to sing along using the words 'got to get up, got to feel good' (well done, friends) I am not sure that will trouble my synapses for very long. Sometimes when people ape klub klassix they do such a grand job, and buff everything up to such a high sheen, the only thing you can concentrate on is how shiny it is. Yes, I do put my hands in the air when it is on. No, my Mum does not like it. ('That's enough. I get the idea') [6.5/10]
Herman Dune - 'Tell Me Something I Don't Know' (Strange Moosic / Fortuna POP!)
Easily the least cynical and most heart-warming of this week's releases, Herman Dune heap cherries upon bells with a videothing that includes a) John Hamm and b) a small blue puppet Yeti. 'Tell Me Something I Don't Know' is in the Jonathan Richman tradition of quirk but manages to sidestep all of the attendant kook by dint of being drenched in believably naive charm. It is about going out with someone who keeps mentioning things in order to impress you, but you are all like whatever dude I done that / hearda that YARS AGO. You should be nicer to them. And this is brilliant, slight and neatly done. [8/10: 'It's a bit repetitive']
Bibio - 'K Is For Kelson' (Warp)
Yay for Bibio, who this week would like to spin some sound out of the broken shoelaces of the Red Hand Gang, some bubblegum that comes with a free comic and a baseball t-shirt with differently coloured, raglan sleeves. By all of which I mean, 'K Is For Kelson' harks back to a particularly 70s, scuffed and childlike sort of jauntiness, and I think you would have to be a bit of a churl to take against it. No one could object to being taught their one to tens while this was on the stereo. Apart from my Dad, who was doing the washing up but felt moved to exclaim that this 'Sounds like bloody Romanian music'.
'And we should know, we've been there,' says Mum. [6.5/10] (Harsh)
Cass McCombs - 'County Line' (Domino)
With a melody and pace not a million miles away from John Lennon's 'Woman', here is Cass McCombs to give us a lesson in how to be trad., familiar. And it's a stately sort of lesson if a little on the dull side. Also, it has some unforgiveable 'woahs' and my Mum did one of those amusing exaggerated yawns when I looked up at her. 'Where does it go?' she said, rightly. [4/10]
Beat Connection - 'In The Water' (Tender Age)
Beat Connection's delirious last, 'Silver Screen' began with schooly flutes. 'In The Water' however, chooses to be literal, and sploshes around for a bit before invoking some sun-bleached chorals and 90s ravey keyboards. Then it dawdles in the same spot for about a minute, as if mesmerized by something. When it remembers to keep moving it's quite compelling, but I may have had my fill of soundscapes; this washy, somewhat heartless and at arm's length brand of hazy pop can only take you so far. And I want pop to push me off the precipice. [No response: putting the bin out.]
Sparrow & The Workshop - 'Snakes In The Grass' (Distiller Records)
'Snakes in the Grass' is good because it does that stop-start thing; it is a dodgem of a single which makes a virtue out of jerking. Jill O'Sullivan also has a voice I find hard to resist, it loses none of its melody as it turns the dial marked 'power' up as high as it will go. And even though it sounds like it could quite easily have sat beside a Sebadoh b-side on a gifted mix cassette from 1992, this does not matter. Regular readers will know I am a big fan of concision in singles (if not in my own prose) - which is why I am also delighting in the chutzpah of a single that lasts for just two and a half minutes. I mean, no one is going to file Sparrow & The Workshop under Difficult Art, but they are very likeable all the same. (Mum: 'Is it Bjorn?' (she means Bjork) / Me: 'She sounds a bit like Courtney' / Mum (over the stereo): 'OH, IS IT COURTNEY LOVE?' / Me: 'NO.') [7.5/10]
Rusko - 'Everyday' / 'Lick The Lizard' (Mad Decent)
Have you heard 'Lick The Lizard'? It's awful. And not like 'a bit awful' either, it is the sort of awful where a person might be trying to be clever, and doing two things at once, and preparing a spot of dinner, and listening to the singles at the same time, but listening to them 'blind' because what with all the chopping and stirring, there is no time for looking up to check whose song is whose. When 'Lick The Lizard' came on, I said out loud 'What the uckfing uckf?' before realising it was Rusko, whose Woo Boosts I used to adore. So I did a little cry into my stir fry, and then I ATE MY OWN TEARS. There is some sort of grand philosophical meaning here, I just don't know what it is. I did, however, play 'Everyday' to my Mum, who absolutely ruddy loved it. 'I like happy music,' she said, 'and I really really like this'. / Me: 'Oooh, do you? I don't.' / Her: 'Do you not? I do.' / Me: 'Do you? I don't.' ETC. [8.5/10, for 'Everyday']
Villagers - 'The Pact (I'll Be Your Fever)' (Domino)
One of the most frustrating things about art is the distance between what you intend and what ends up on the page. And I think this may be why 99.9% of first songs by first bands forget that it is possible to write a song about heartbreak without mentioning either hearts or love once. What with Conor being one of life's most elegant lyricists, here on 'The Pact' he does a grand job of extracting meaning from the idea that sometimes love is a burden and a sapper, taking more than it bestows. The clever thing is that he sounds so jolly while he does, like a smiling jailor as they turn the key. 'Well, you know I'm going to like this,' say Ma. [8/10]
Also out this Week!
Youngman - 'Tear It Out' (Digital Soundboy)
Gallops - 'Joust' (Blood & Biscuits)
The Travelling Band - 'Fairweather Friends' (Cooking Vinyl)
Treetop Flyers - 'Things Will Change' (Communion)
Ben Howard - 'The Old Pine' EP (Island)
Apollo - 'Rope' (More here)
All Mankind - 'Break The Spell' (SO Records)
Comet Gain - 'Working Circle Explosive!' (Fortuna POP!)
Various Cruelties - 'Neon Truth' (Almanac Recordings)
Our Mountain - 'Wooden Hearts' (Dancing Daughters)
Wendy is on Twitter, here. Yes she is trying to spoil all your fun, because that is how she gets her fun.


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Italian profit margins have decreased in 2015 but are expected to remain stable in 2016.
- A modest rebound in 2015
- Meat sector faces more troubles
- Higher insolvency risk for smaller food retailers
The food sector is one of the most important industries in Italy, which employs around 385,000 people and generated a total turnover of more than EUR 132 billion in 2014. After several years of suffering from the domestic economic downturn, the Italian food sector´s performance was stable in 2014, benefiting from lower raw materials and energy prices. In 2015 a modest production increase of 1.1% and turnover growth of 0.3% is expected, mainly driven by higher exports (up 6%). The sector was able to compensate for losses caused by the Russian import ban with higher exports to the US and the EU.
Profit margins have decreased in 2015, but are expected to remain stable in 2016. Payment delays and insolvencies are also expected to remain stable next year.
So far in 2015 dairy production has grown in absolute value, but not enough to compensate for the general decrease in milk prices, putting pressure on businesses´ margins. Lower demand from China and the Russian import ban have added to that pressure. At least Italian dairy recorded higher export growth to the US, Japan, the UAE or South Korea. However, the outlook for 2016 remains subdued, unless milk prices increase again. The butter and powdered milk segments remain the best performers in this segment.
In the cereals sector prices for raw materials have been generally low, except for wheat prices, which remained volatile after a peak at the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015. In general, higher wheat prices have put pressure on margins in the mill segment. The pasta and bakery segments have benefited from the strong reputation of the "Made in Italy" trademark abroad with increasing exports, while the domestic performance remained flat. The outlook remains positive, with further growth of demand expected in the EU, the US and new market opportunities in Asia.
In Italy, domestic meat consumption has remained below EU average. The beef sector is affected by a change in food habits towards increased white meat consumption. Except for the beef segment, the sector has taken advantage of lower animal feed prices, which led to a small recovery of margins. While it is too early to assess the effects of recent WHO warnings about the negative consequences of processed meat consumption on health, Italian consumers´ first reaction has already been a reduction in meat consumption. We monitor this subsector more closely than others due to its problems, and our underwriting stance is more restrictive.
After decreasing sales in 2014, food retail turnover has increased again in 2015. However, this growth was mainly generated by large scale retailers, while smaller retailers are still recording decreasing sales. Large scale retailers show better capitalisation, stronger market power, a reasonable level of liquidity and access to the bank system, while small- and medium-sized retailers face a higher insolvency risk.
The Italian retail sector remains strongly fragmented, with increasing competition, higher gearing and pressure on margins. Even the biggest Italian businesses are small compared to other international major retail players. It is expected that the concentration process in the Italian retail segment will accelerate further in 2016.
Since October 2012 a new law ('Article 62') lays down a maximum payment term in the food sector of 30 days for perishable goods and 60 days for non-perishable goods. This law was also meant to release further liquidity in the Italian food value chain and help to improve international competitiveness. However, the effects of the law have been limited so far. In many cases additional liquidity has been used to reduce short-term bank facilities, not being substituted with new investments. Additionally, there is still a lack of external monitoring of compliance: many small players are still not complying with Article 62, leading to longer payment terms.
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A REVIVALIST who had fallen dead in the pulpit from too violent religious exercise was astonished to wake up in Hades. He promptly sent for the Adversary of Souls and demanded his freedom, explaining that he was entirely orthodox, and had always led a pious and holy life.
"That is all very true," said the Adversary, "but you taught by example that a verb should not agree with its subject in person and number, whereas the Good Book says that contention is worse than a dinner of herbs. You also tried to release the objective case from its thraldom to the preposition, and it is written that servants should obey their masters. You stay right here."
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The Conservation Officer Service in Terrace is investigating after a grizzly bear was found dead 15 kilometres out of Terrace.
Officers believe the young bear was shot multiple times and left near Chimdemash Loop Road and the Skeena River sometime between Sept. 17 and Sept. 20.
"It was found on the edge of the river by an angler, and so we're asking the public if they have any leads or tips that may help us out," said conservation officer Michael Geuze.
"There's no hunting season for grizzlies."
The province announced in 2017 that it would end trophy hunting of grizzly bears and stop all hunting for them.
Hunters kill about 250 grizzlies each year in B.C., according to a provincial estimate when the ban was introduced. About 15,000 of them are left in the province.
READ MORE: Grizzly bear trophy hunting over in B.C.
The maximum penalty for shooting a grizzly bear is a fine of $100,000 and one year in jail.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the RAPP line at 1-877-952-7277.
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My mom and dad aren't really elderly. They're not 70, but almost. Like knocking on the door. But "elderly" is a relative term.
The past few years, visits to my parents' home in Arizona have provided several family take-away stories. There was the time I backed into their house... with Mom's car; the time I experienced heat exhaustion [Dad's diagnosis] or water intoxication [my diagnosis]; the time we debated the value of a Snuggie; and the time Mom and I learned that it's common for public bathrooms to have ice in the urinals. I continue to find women, elderly women even, who's husbands have neglected to share that last fact with them.
Middle Boy and I traveled to Arizona in June so he could attend a music camp -- we stayed with Mom and Dad. Chris and our other two sons remained in Utah.
The music camp culminated with a Friday night concert after a week of lessons and rehearsals. My parents and I happily attended the event to support our young rocker.
I arrived at the concert venue early so that I could snag some good seats. Sideways glances shot my way, warning me that it was not cool to save seats. I sat down in the second row, placed my purse on the chair to my right and a camera on the chair to my left. Seats saved, glances ignored.
The small auditorium filled quickly. With 15 minutes until show time, my parents still hadn't arrived and the only two seats remaining were theirs. People asked, "Are those taken?" I apologized to everyone and said yes. Where were they?
The couple sitting in front of me turned around and gave me a sympathetic look.
"I can tell it's poor form to save seats," I said. "But we traveled from Utah and my parents are so excited to see my son play. My brother and his wife are here, too, but they're on their own." Then I embellished, "And my parents are... elderly."
"Oh we understand," said the woman while her husband nodded in agreement. "Last year we tried to save a seat for my mother-in-law who'd just had hip replacement surgery. She could hardly walk. She got here late -- poor thing struggled in the dark parking lot -- and a rude woman plopped herself down in the seat we were saving. Said we weren't allowed to save seats and she was going to watch her child perform."
"How old is your mother-in-law?" I asked.
Mom and Dad finally bounced into the auditorium. They looked perky, were dressed in their classic yet contemporary styles, and moved very non-geriatric-like through the crowded aisles to where I was sitting. The couple in front of me watched my parents approach. "Your parents?" they asked, eyebrows raised.
Twelve bands. Twelve, young [ages 11-17], loud bands. All very good, I might add, and playing to a mature, seated house. Middle-aged parents, grandparents and a few younger siblings stared at the stage with goofy smiles on their faces and clapped courteously at the end of each performance. Not your typical rock concert crowd.
"Is that a boy or a girl?" Dad asked me. Repetitively and audibly. I played deaf and hoped the parents of the androgynous kids weren't sitting near us. His commentary continued. I can't tell. Seriously. Is that a girl? A boy? Can you tell? They all look the same. Ooh. That's a big kid. Look how tiny that one is. He can't be 11. Was that a good singer? Did you like that singer? I can't tell who's good. What about that one? Boy? Girl?
"They're all doing a great job!" I said loudly and fervently. Damage control.
As we piled out of the auditorium at the end of the night, I managed to make eye contact with the couple who had been sitting in front of us. I raised my eyebrows. Elderly.


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In the Gmail interface they are not consistent in which cursor they use on button/link hover.
They use the "hand" pointer for:
- Links in the sidebar(mail, contacts, inbox, starred etc..)
- The mails
- The consistent Google toolbar(top)
- Settings
- Chat expand and dropdown "more" buttons
They use the regular cursor for:
- The mailtoolbar(Archive, spam, delete, +/- importance etc..)
- The search button
- The compose mail and new contact button
- The send invite button
What are the reasons behind these choices and inconsistency (most specifically the send invite button) in some cases?
I have not collected data on these inconsistencies across other google products.
Info: I am using the preview theme, but it seems to be the same across all themes


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Gregg Rosenthal pointed out Sunday that the onus is on Joe Flacco to carry the Baltimore Ravens' flawed collection of receiving talent following tight end Dennis Pitta's season-ending hip injury.
While general manager Ozzie Newsome insists the Ravensaren't panicking over Pitta's injury, his quarterback is not taking the loss in stride. Flacco was "walking around the Ravens' complex looking disconsolate," TheMMQB.com's Peter King reported Monday.
As King notes, Pitta was slated to be Flacco's go-to target in key situations with Anquan Boldin out of the picture. Pitta also is Flacco's best friend on the team.
Newsome conceded to SI.com's Don Banks that the Ravensdon't yet know their offensive identity, hinting that the passing game might transition to a vertical attack that heavily relies on play-action.
It's a plan that makes sense, as Ray Rice and Bernard Pierce are two of the NFL's top 20 running backs. Furthermore, the Ravens have deep speed to spare at wide receiver but lack proven chain-movers.
Keep an eye on second-year burner Deonte Thompson, whom Newsome mentioned in the same sentence as Torrey Smith and Jacoby Jones. If the drop-prone Thompson fails to open eyes in training camp, though, Newsome won't be afraid to pull the trigger on a trade or signing.
"We have a history of making moves just a week or two before the season starts, to be able to put the final pieces together," Newsome told Banks. "We don't play Denver tomorrow, and the season is 16 games long. What you worry about is needing to play real good football going into November and December."
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Fix for OpenSSL/SSH/VPN Vulnerability in Ubuntu 7.04/7.10/8.04
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and SSL certificates.You can check Ubuntu security notice from here
This vulnerability only affects operating systems which (like Ubuntu) are based on Debian. However, other systems can be indirectly affected if weak keys are imported into them.
We consider this an extremely serious vulnerability, and urge all users to act immediately to secure their systems. (CVE-2008-0166) This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
Affected keys include SSH keys, OpenVPN keys, DNSSEC keys, and key material for use in X.509 ertificates and session keys used in SSL/TLS connections. Keys generated with GnuPG or GNUTLS are not affected,
The following Ubuntu releases are affected:
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Solution 1
You can download and install .deb packages from here
Upgrade instructions
dpkg -i file.deb -- will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update -- will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade -- will install corrected packages
Solution 2
In this method you can check your SSH key is effected with this security hole or not
Download the following files
(OpenPGP signature)
Upgrade instructions
wget url -- will fetch the file for you and download pgp file also
wget http://security.debian.org/project/extra/dowkd/dowkd.pl.gz
gunzip dowkd.pl.gz
chmod +x dowkd.pl
./dowkd.pl file /etc/ssh/ssh_host_{dsa,rsa}_key.pub 2>/dev/null
This will tell you if the public key is weak. If it is, you should move/remove the key pair, then generate a new pair with the following command
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow openssh-server
Authorized keys, that can login using key based authentication.
./dowkd.pl file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys 2>/dev/null
This will return any weak keys that are authorized to login using key based authentication, these entries should be removed and a new one generated and added to the file.
You can create a new one using "ssh-keygen", and redistribute the public key


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A KLA policeman: tellingly, not looking eager to tackle Kosovo's traffic culture problem |
Budapest: beautiful - but one driver was misinformed about my mother's personal hygiene |
A KLA policeman: tellingly, not looking eager to tackle Kosovo's traffic culture problem |
Budapest: beautiful - but one driver was misinformed about my mother's personal hygiene |
"Do motorists take their cue to break the rules partly from cyclists?" - In my opinion, no.
If their were no bikes on the road motorists would still speed, jump red lights, talk/tweet on the mobile, and break the 'lesser' highway code rules such as entering yellow boxes etc.
In cities especially, driving isn't fun, you are stuck in traffic watching the time tick away and the lights turn red in-front of you.
Anger towards cyclists is purely out of frustration that they are moving faster and keep over taking you when you have just put your foot down to get past them in the first place.
When a cyclist breaks 'the code' the motorists use this to justify their feelings.
Maybe if all cyclists stuck to the rules motorists would find it harder to blame them for the jam they find themselves in. But it wouldn't stop motorists breaking the rules.
Thank you very much for your comment. I entirely agree that motorists would still break the rules if there were no cyclists. They would also remain much the most important source of risk on the roads. I wasn't arguing otherwise. I said only that motorists and pedestrians seeing cyclists breaking rules must "to some extent, feel freer to disregard the rules or behave intolerantly themselves". I think everyone has a responsibility to create a culture where we abide by common, agreed rules. Cyclists' rule-breaking is far less dangerous than motorists, so there's less moral obligation on cyclists, I think. But cyclists as a group also have a great deal to gain if people follow rules more.
All the best,
Invisible Visible Man.
Interesting to read your comments about Kosovo. I was in Bosnia in 2000, and was struck by how well-mannered the motorists were. True, there were very few cars. Walking through Sarajevo one evening I came to a crossroads with traffic lights but no traffic except for one solitary police car, its blue light flashing, patiently waiting for the green light.
Bosnia, at that time, seemed very keen on following the rule of law, perhaps in expiation for the horrors of war.
What a very interesting comment. I've actually spent considerably more time in Bosnia than in Kosovo and, now you come to mention it, I can't think of a hair-raising peacetime roads story. I did have have a very scary bus journey with a bunch of refugees from Tuzla to Split during the closing days of the war. But that was scary because the bus had to go on forest tracks at points to avoid sniper fire, many of the bridges along the Neretva Valley had been blown up and the Bosnian Croat police wanted to harass my fellow passengers.
I'm going to use this opportunity, however, to join my opinions on two areas - traffic culture and the origins of the Yugoslav wars. I'm going to say the traffic culture in Sarajevo reflects the fundamentally tolerant, liberal ethos of the city, which barbaric Serb then Croat ethnic nationalists set about destroying. I certainly have a vague feeling the driving in Banja Luka was worse than that in Sarajevo.
How does that theory sound to you?
I missed Banja Luka, but spent some time in nearby (largely Bosniak) Bosanska Krupa. Traffic there was worse than Sarajevo or Mostar, but perhaps merely because there was more of it. The coast road up through Croatia was horrendous, with suicidal and murderous traffic.
My previous visit to the area was Belgrade in 1978, where I found the people very friendly and welcoming, as the Bosnian people were in 2000. I can't draw accurate conclusions from my own experiences, but I hope Sarajevo has retained its "tolerant liberal ethos" that I found, and that the country can find some kind of peace from its present schizophrenic nature.
"It was illuminating precisely because, to people sitting inside cars, using a road often feels like a purely private enterprise."
Quite. Recalling also the BMA "ban smoking in cars" press release, last November. The outraged response was generally that the interior of a moving car was a private space.
Its a shame that the very notion of a motorist's private space wasn't debated or further ruminated on by the media, at the time.
The last time I (cycling) ran a red light, I was virtually forced-to by a following car !
Approaching traffic-lights that had been green for a long time, with cars waiting in the side-road, I heard a car behind me accelerating towards me. Rather than watching the pretty coloured lights in case they changed, I looked back over my shoulder at the (potentially-) homicidal maniac with a lethal weapon.
He cut back in behind me and did a sudden stop. As I turned back to face forwards, I saw the lights change from amber to red, just as I shot through. I was accelerating away from the car behind, rather than braking. I slowed to let the car from the side-street pull out in front of me, then continued across the junction to clear it, rather than stopping in the middle where I couldn't see the lights.
I bet the driver behind said 'bl**dy dangerous cyclist - just ignored the red lights' !
I have worked out that my safety consists of getting cars safely past me. I'm no racer, and much of Northampton believes you _have_ to drive between 30 and 35 mph. So I never 'filter' between lanes to the advanced stop line - I wouldn't want them to overtake me again, doubling the risk.
Oddly I get some of the worst reactions when I am behaving at my best ! eg Where there were 3 lanes queueing at lights, I stopped in the centre lane (centred on the left wheels of the car in front). In bottom gear, I can accelerate across a junction much like the average motorist (same power/weight ratio). Even so, since no-one was using the left lane I moved left into it to allow cars to pass unimpeded (for 10 feet until they had to brake to avoid rear-ending the car in front). Perfect, amicable behaviour, not taking unfair advantage of my size and mobility.
Oddly, the passenger wound down the window and leaned out as they passed, screaming "Pushbike wanker !!"
I suspect he may have intended to slap me in passing, but my moving left foiled that. Last time I was assaulted like that, I started carrying a metal bar of throwable size for just one route, but you need a good 'exit strategy' to deploy a missile safely.
One problem is that motorists say cyclists are untrained, but when we follow the training (assertive positioning) they threaten us physically - "Get out of my way or I'll hit you!"
There's a disconnect there. I worry that "Be assertive, but be prepared to give way ..." ends up training drivers "It's OK to drive at cyclists - they will get out of your way !" So far I've mostly managed to hold my line until the motorists give way, but "playing chicken" can get stressful, to say the least.
PS Advanced Stop Lines for cyclists would only be safer if we also had 'Advanced Go Lights' for cyclists ! I believe that's why they work in NL and DK. Typical of UK only to implement the dangerous half of the solution, not the beneficial part !
Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I've argued before (as in this post - http://invisiblevisibleman.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/why-some-people-get-angry-with-cyclists.html) that motorists' anger with cyclists is entirely unrelated to how cyclists behave. If people were angry at bad road behaviour, they'd be far more angry than they are at the behaviour of motor vehicles (since motor vehicles were involved in 99.92 per cent of road fatalities from 2008 to 2010). Anti-cyclist anger is pretty much entirely an artifact of angry people's feelings, rather than anything to do with cyclists.
As for the advance stop lights, I have to say I'm a little sceptical. The problem, it seems to me, is that they work only if cyclists can get to the head of the queue of traffic. As you point out, since it's currently effectively impossible in many circumstances to reach the advance stop area, I can't see how cyclists would actually be able to start earlier under most circumstances. Without proper enforcement, the lights would quickly come to be disregarded as comprehensively as advance stop lines are at the moment. Motorists would simply go on the cycle signal, rather than waiting.
You are, finally, entirely right about the problem of riding as training suggests one should. Motorists frequently get very aggressive if one occupies the lane fully, as one's meant to do where overtaking would be dangerous. It's one of many areas in UK cycling policy where there is a need both for police forces to protect cyclists by prosecuting illegal driving and for a proper public information campaign about how to drive round cyclists.
Neither, unfortunately, is even approaching the horizon,
A cycling advocate I used to know said that all road users (drivers, cyclists, pedestrians) will break traffic laws when three conditions are met:
1. It's convenient for them to do so.
2. They don't think it will hurt anyone.
3. They don't think they're likely to be caught and punished.
I've read the argument that given that no category of road users has a monopoly on unlawful behavior, the animosity between groups may actually be based on the perception of outgroup status. Unfortunately, that suggests that behaving lawfully may not improve relations much. Still, I think it's worth doing, for a variety of reasons.
Thank you for your comment. I think you're quite right that good behaviour doesn't help much. I do my best to follow the rules fastidiously and still get all manner of grief from motorists. Your list of circumstances where people will misbehave also strikes me as very credible.
The big reason why people should follow the rules, of course, is that people are selfish in their assessments of when they're unlikely to hurt someone else - and insufficiently cautious in their assumptions about what others will do. So people see that it's convenient for them to do something and assume, lazily, that no-one else will emerge unexpectedly or behave in an unexpected fashion. It doesn't work out that way and it's a big reason why people get hurt and killed.
All the best,
You're more likely to hurt someone in ALL scenarios when driving 1000kg+ of metal. So saying 'all road users' as if 'all' road users are the problem, is a fallacy. I might break minor road rules (whilst being an advanced urban cyclist) but it's nothing to do with being punished, it's only when it's safe to do so for everyone and a cost-benefit WIN. I can calculate that accurately, unlike some. That's why most of the time I err on the side of caution, as driver or cyclist, it's the best policy. I think about the best policy. Not how to get somewhere 5% faster and how I must stress ever forward to jump to my master's bidding. I think THERE lies the real root problem with motorists behaviour - living life too fast and their brains not being able to keep up - certainly not in a civilised manner.
Didn't someone say that back in the early 20th Century, when low speed limits were de rigeur? Wasn't he laughed at, certainly some decades later when fast driving became the norm?
More fool the detractors, not him!
I agree that we don't always think through how an action might hurt someone else. Here in St. Louis MO where I bike (and do my best to follow the rules of the road), cyclists roll through stop signs quite frequently. It's so common, in fact, that it's become impossible for a cyclist approaching a stop sign to behave both lawfully and predictably. You pretty much have to choose one or the other. I stop all the time, and I find that drivers already waiting at four-way stops routinely hesitate to take the right of way because they expect me not to stop. That might seem like a small problem, but my husband has experienced a different effect of the "cyclists-don't-stop" assumption: he was rear-ended by another cyclist at a stop sign. I worry about being rear-ended by a driver. I'm sure those rolling through stop signs think that they are not hurting anyone (that's the view of ethicist and New York cyclist Randy Cohen, linked below), but by making law-abiding cyclists less predictable, they increase the risks we experience.
First of all, my heart is warmed by the thoughtful nature of your comments. Thank you. I'll try to find time to look up that NYT piece too.
You're quite right that people almost don't expect cyclists to stop. I realised that in July when I was first cycling in my new home city of New York. I was drawing up to a red light, a woman was crossing with her son, she looked up, saw an approaching cyclist and grabbed her son out of my path, assuming I was going to mow him down. I was indeed going to stop but felt mortified that this was her expectation.
As for other cyclists' reaction, I regularly find other cyclists swarming round me or pushing to get past at lights. It's frustrating. I once accidentally knocked off another cyclist who swung past me through lights just as the lights changed. She was a cycle courier and good enough to admit it was her fault. A few weeks after that, I got knocked off, fairly painfully, by another cyclist who was running a red light. He pleaded that he hadn't seen me. I pointed out there was a red light to prevent such incidents. So your husband has my full sympathy.
All the best,
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> As a newbie to hot flashes, I would really appreciate your advice. Should they be acknowledged or ignored in a professional setting? When a flash hits, this fair-skinned Irish girl turns beet red, and the inevitable sweaty face follows. This happened recently in a job interview. I didn't say anything, but you should have seen the looks I got.
J.H. / Newburyport
Questions like this remind a person — me, to be exact — that the personal really is political. When hot-flashing, there ought to be no more burden on you to soothe or enlighten your audience than there would be if you sneezed. That this isn't the case says unhappy things about our culture's views on women and age.
Which isn't to suggest you turn into a Militantly Menopausal Millie, especially at a job interview. Say "Excuse me, I'm having a hot flash'' if your immediate company needs an explanation. Unless you're with lady friends, don't make self-deprecating jokes. Then take a deep breath, a sip of water, and dab your forehead with a well-ironed handkerchief of excellent quality, perhaps monogrammed. Learn how to do this with deliberation and ease, allowing it to be a moment when everyone else can quickly check their smartphones, blow their noses, or organize their own thoughts. A moment that enhances your authority, rather than undermining it.
Shorter version? Those of us old enough for hot flashes are old enough to be role models. Behave in the confident, assured way that you'd like to see your own daughter, niece, student, or protege act when it's her turn.
> I recently found out that a friend who goes to dinner with me and two other women and takes our money so she can use her charge card has been cheating us. We give her 20 percent for the tip, but one of the women saw that she was only putting 15 percent. I feel as if she's stealing from us. What should we say?
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"Stealing'' is swiping candy from a drugstore. What you suspect Perpetrator Friend of doing is more properly described as "embezzling.'' That said, on a $200 tab — a reasonably generous estimate of what dinner and drinks for four women might run — the difference between a 20 percent tip and a 15 percent one is $10. Perp Friend is skimming off less than $3.50 from each of you (in cop-show lingo, the "Vic Friends''). Doesn't that seem odd?
Are you sure Witness Friend is right about what she saw? If so, are you sure Perp Friend couldn't have made a simple error? That certainly seems the most probable explanation. The fact that the three of you are assuming foul play leads me to suspect you don't particularly like Perp Friend in the first place. If that's so, there's no need for a confrontation — let the group lapse and then regroup as a troika after a bit.
But if you have the slightest skepticism of eyewitness testimony — which you should — or the slightest faith in Perp Friend — only you can speak to that — then have one more dinner. Come cashless and armed with a credit card. If it turns out you've foiled a nefarious scheme, it should be obvious from her reaction.
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I wasn't an OO proponent until recently. Perhaps I'm not really even
a good one now. I did my fair share of OO classes when I was studying
at university and I knew the concepts pretty well. Both of my major
team projects involved writing in Visual C++ (oh! the horror!) and I
was pretty o'fay with classes and objects and methods and all. I knew
how to use objects but I was hazy on their design. What makes an
object? The programming I have had to do doesn't map so well to the
simple examples of "person" classes, or "trucks" with "fire trucks",
"tip trucks" and such inheriting from the "truck" class.
Sure, my 3rd and 4th year projects didn't immediately map into objects either. It might have been a useful learning exercise if I'd been on the design teams, but I would have slowed things down. Taking a requirements specification and turning out a list of objects and how they'll interact was magic so far as I could tell. I didn't learn Perl OO until I had to look for work. It had always seemed too hard before then. It took me 30 minutes to read all the relevant stuff from Damian's book. It looked easy. It was. After doing some simple introductory projects at my new job, I was set loose on "The Project". Well coded... well mostly well coded but it had 1 object and about 1000 functions full of if/else statements. If my type is a subnet do this. Else if my type is a host do that. Else if my type is a domain do something else... Even I could see that there should be either a heap more specialized functions or a lot more specific objects. So I asked if we could change it, and of course was told "no". It worked as it was. So I "maintained" The Project and secretly started to modularize it a bit better. Then another developer, slightly higher in the hierarchy than I, found that a feature request was impossible to provide in the system as it stood. We started to write more specific objects (subnet, host, domain etc), all inheriting from the initial monster... Hooray! After working on this project I suddenly understood both Perl OO and general OOD much better. I got a good feel for what kind of functions should be generic and which should be specific. I started thinking more in terms of OO. I started proposing OO solutions to things, even here because they seemed to be better solutions than otherwise. Then BUU asked a question and I found myself responding "Do consider OO where it might be useful". But what does that mean? If someone had said that to me before I worked on The Project I doubt I would have had a good idea of where OO would be useful at all. Computer Science classes had taught me the platitudes:
So I begin to think that it might be helpful to look at WHY I thought an OO solution to vaevictus's problem was a good idea. Firstly it seemed obvious to me that a solution involving an array of hashes would work. So I created one to play with. The requested push function took my array and did stuff to it, likewise my pop function. Then I looked at it again and thought, this function is very specific to this data structure. Nothing else could be passed to this function and have a sensible result. It seemed that it would be nice to save the programmer from assuming that these just replaced push and pop. And I was passing the array around, how could I stop the programmer from messing up it's order and then wondering why the pop function didn't give the next event? Could I make it so this code could be useful to other programs too? It seemed like this event handling was a really good thing to modularize. When a lot of OO Perl programmers think of modules they immediately think of objects. Not me. I usually think of libraries. Then that second last concern up there started niggling at me. How could I hide the internals of the event queue from the programmer? OO of course. I'd even stopped thinking of it as "an array" and started thinking of it as "an event queue". It wanted to be an object. So it was. Of course the use of a single object in a Perl project doesn't automatically require that the rest of your code be broken up around objects. Many of us work with CGI in an OO sense every day yet write largely imperative scripts. Findy Services and B. Jacobs don't have it all wrong when they criticize OO. It's not a magical solution. But it can be very, very useful. So here are my guidelines for indications that you might want to use objects, even in otherwise imperative programs.
What other suggestions do people have? jarich
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HALFWAY, Mo. (AP) — State officials say up to 2,500 animal carcasses are buried in a trench near a closed cattle rendering plant in southwest Missouri.
The owner of the former Halfway Packing Company in Polk County has signed an agreement to clean up environmental hazards on the property.
KYTV-TV reports the plant closed last winter because of what owner Ed Gibson called financial difficulties.
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Vol. LXII, No. 52
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
ELEGANT TRADITION: 18th Century American reproduction furniture is our forte, says Richard Gasior, owner with his wife Donna, of Gasiors Furniture & Accessories. It is timeless; it never goes out of style. Those who appreciate fine craftsmanship know it evolved in the 18th Century. Mr. Gasior is surrounded by a variety of accessories available in the store. |
Marking 30 years in business is a true milestone, and when this has been accomplished with a continuous emphasis on high quality products and superior customer service, it is all the more worthy of celebration.
Gasiors Furniture & Accessories, at 2152 Route 206 South in Belle Mead, offers a tradition of 18th Century Elegance. Its focus on 18th Century American reproduction furniture has set it apart from other stores, and in the course of 30 years, Gasiors has earned an honored reputation in its field.
Once upon a time, children attended school in the building that now houses Gasiors. Opened in 1918, the Harlingen School accommodated grades kindergarten through 12 until the early 1970s, The Gasiors moved in in 1978.
A building with a history is appropriate for Gasiors, with its specialty on 18th Century American reproduction furniture.
My wife Donnas family had a furniture store, and she and I decided to go into a venture of our own, explains Mr. Gasior. We thought being near Princeton was a plus for the store. I was especially interested in the history aspect of 18th Century furniture and the quality attributed to this particular period of time.
I want to stress that in todays marketplace, we try to maintain American-made products, including from fine manufacturers, such as Baker, Hinkel-Harris, Karges, and Harden, he continues. Its all solid wood, craftsman-made furniture from the U.S., including New York, Indiana, and Virginia. The manufacturers offer various finishes, from wood to painted to inlay. And customers may be surprised to find that the cost of this quality furniture is competitive.
Timely Today
The furniture is characterized by exceptional craftsmanship, he notes, including dovetail joints, and it is timeless, he adds. The historic styles of Chippendale, Queen Anne, and Heppelwhite these are styles that never go out of style. They are as timely today as they were in the 1700s.
A full array of living room, dining room, and bedroom furniture, and occasional pieces, is on display in sample room settings in the spacious store, which includes two floors.
With regard to upholstery, we stress comfort, points out Mr. Gasior. We offer spring down seat cushions, coil springs, and down and feathers in the cushions. Frames are supported for comfort. Fabrics are an integral part of the overall piece, and we deal with most of the quality fabric manufacturers, such as Brunshwig & Fils, Scalamandre, and Stroheim and Roman.
Gasiors also offers a complimentary design service, which has become a big part of the business. We have three talented designers on staff, who are dedicated and love what they do, says Mr. Gasior. There are also many fabric samples available at the store.
Country Look
In addition to the basically formal 18th Century reproduction furniture, which often features mahogany, cherry, and walnut woods, Gasiors carries an assortment of transitional tables and chairs, Furniture that is between traditional and contemporary, and this is very popular, explains Mr. Gasior.
Also available is the line of Guy Chaddock furniture, emphasizing a more country look. Its solid alder wood, and its a country English look, a distressed look, he says. It is available in 30 different finishes in bedroom, dining room, and occasional pieces.
Leather sofas and chairs are favorites at the store, as is the selection of game tables, including flip-top models and traditional with built-in chess and backgammon boards. Complete the setting of the game room or den with one of Gasiors handsome grandfather clocks and globes of furniture quality.
The store is noted for its fine selection of lamps of all kinds in porcelain, bronze, and crystal, and Gasiors also offers many gift items, such as candlesticks, boxes, decanters, and the ever-popular blue and white porcelain bowls, plates and tureens. Gift items are very reasonably priced, starting at $10.
Gasiors carries the high-quality Shifman mattresses, which are hand-made in Newark. Exclusive to Gasiors in the area, they are noted both for comfort and durability.
The stores selection of needlepoint pillows and framed art are additional attractions for many customers. Art includes oils, prints, and botanicals in assorted themes and sizes. Looking at the art while browsing is part of the pleasure of visiting this handsome store. Customers are never rushed as they try out a leather chair or admire the classic lines of a Heppelwhite sideboard.
Principals Office
And while their parents browse, kids can spend time in the stores playroom (formerly the principals office at the school), fully equipped with toys, books, desk, and chalkboard.
It is not surprising that Gasiors has attracted many regular customers over the years, and from a wide area. They come from Princeton, as well as all over the state, New York and beyond, says Mr. Gasior. I enjoy the fact that people remember us, are satisfied with the furniture, and keep coming back to us.
He is also very pleased that a second generation of Gasiors, sons Gregory and Todd, are involved full-time in the business. His wife Donna continues to be active in design and maintaining the layout of the store.
We all look forward to continuing to provide good quality products and to support the people who manufacture solid wood furniture here in the U.S., continues Mr. Gasior. It makes us happy that people appreciate it.
And, throughout its years of business, Gasiors has made a point of giving back to the community. This has always been important to us, and we especially support the youth of Montgomery Township, including backing basketball and baseball teams, and Scout troops. We want to give back.
Gasiors is open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thursday until 8. (908) 874-8383. Website: www.gasiorsfurniture.com.
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Trump encouraging anti-immigrant violence? Lawmakers discuss in El Paso
WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — The El Paso Walmart shooter who murdered 22 people and injured dozens more made clear he wanted to kill Mexicans who were "invading" America.
Lawmakers say that language echoed some of President Trump's speeches about immigration and on Friday, they held a hearing on whether his words are encouraging violence against immigrants.
Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar says there is no better place to talk about domestic terrorism aimed at immigrants than her hometown of El Paso.
Escobar says Trump's words are hurtful.
"He's called immigrants animals, and the rhetoric has only escalated over time," says Escobar. "The terrorist confessed that he came to El Paso to 'target Mexicans and immigrants."
New York Democrat Jerry Nadler says the President's anti-immigrant rhetoric has turned into anti-immigrant policies.
"I wonder what the source of his ideas were," says Nadler of the El Paso shooter.
Notably absent from Friday's hearing were Republicans — the hearing was not an official committee event nor was attendance mandatory.
Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee says her Republican colleagues were invited to the hearing, but declined.
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President Barack Obama in 2008, and again during the 2012 election, promised absolutely, positively no tax hikes on the middle class. The rich, however, must pay more: "It's not me being stubborn, it's not me being partisan -- it's just a matter of math."
How does Obama intend to pay for our cradle-to-grave welfare state? Why, by charging the dastardly "millionaires and billionaires" who "can afford to pay a little bit more." No more extending the Bush-era tax rates for the rich. To do so, Obama tells us, would "cost" $700 billion -- over 10 years. So this "break" for the rich "costs" $70 billion a year -- or a mere 6 percent of the trillion dollar annual deficits that Obama has rung up since he became president.
This leaves us short about $930 billion per year -- just for the annual deficit, never mind paring down the ever-growing national debt. From where is the shortfall to be made up?
Lots of deluded Obama voters no doubt truly believe "the mess we're in" is due to "two unpaid for wars and irresponsible tax cuts for the rich." End the wars and slap the rich with Clinton-era tax rates, and voila, watch the deficit and debt go poof! But with Obama safely re-elected, some Democrats now speak the truth: The middle class, contrary to Obama's promise, will see substantial tax increases in order to pay for the welfare state the voters once again signed on to by re-electing Obama.
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, appearing on MSNBC, said: "The only problem is -- and this is, a little, initially going to seem like heresy from a progressive -- the truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich. That's a good start. But we're not going to get out of this deficit problem unless we raise taxes across the board -- to go back to what Bill Clinton had and his taxes. And if we don't do that, the problem is the pressure is going to be on spending even more."
Obama, however, still insists that any budget deal include tax rate hikes on the top 2 percent -- a violation of the anti-tax-increase pledge most Capital Hill Republicans signed. He's winning the argument. Several Republicans now repudiate the pledge.
The "controversial" pledge states that the signer promises to his/her constituents and the American people to: "ONE, oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses; and TWO, oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates."
But with post-election polls showing that Americans support raising taxes on the rich, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, now places "revenue on the table" -- meaning the GOP accepts the election returns as a referendum for a "balanced approach" to dealing with our deficits and debt. By "revenue," Boehner means closing "loopholes" and "capping deductions" used by "the rich" to pay less in taxes. And more recently, fiscal conservative Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., now says he would accept a hike in tax rates, provided the Democrats present a plan to reform entitlements.
Polls show that if Congress and the President fail to come to a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," Republicans will be blamed. And as the Democrats pin blame, expect their friends in the media to assist with joy and enthusiasm.
The Media Research Center tells us that ABC, NBC and CBS have a distorted view of the term "balance." After the election, those networks spent way more time on the issue of tax hikes than on the issue of spending cuts. ABC, says MRC, was the worst: "In the three weeks following President Obama's re-election, 'World News' devoted more than 10 minutes, 18 seconds to talk of tax hikes and just 35 seconds to spending cuts (a 17-to-1 margin)." So much for the balanced approach.
But the problem remains how to get rich people to pay for all the things voters want: insurance companies that are forbidden from turning away people with pre-existing illnesses; federal disaster relief; the placing of millions of uninsured on Medicaid; "world-class education"; "investments" in "green jobs of the future"; regulations to combat "climate change"; extending unemployment benefits again; etc.
In 1900, government spending at all three levels -- local, state and federal -- amounted to about 10 percent of national income. Government spending today amounts to 40 percent -- or 50 percent, if one places a dollar value on the unfunded mandates imposed on states and businesses by Washington. The voters re-elected a President who increased the national debt faster and by a greater amount than any previous administration. And there are simply not enough rich folks to pay for it.
Obama, on Nov. 6, won the political argument to continue to expand government. But the election did nothing to change "the math." Memo to the middle class: Get ready, you're next.


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The 25th article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that adequate shelter and housing are fundamental to our human rights.This is the second year that they have drawn London - this year they've focused on the West End - which was split into a 10 x 10 grid of squares. (Last year they drew the City of London)
Article 25, the UK organisation, works to enable this right by building solutions to global problems.
Article 25 is an operational UK registered charity that designs, builds, and manages projects to provide better shelter wherever there is disaster, poverty, or need.
The project focuses on a different area of the city each year, with a grid of 100 squares laid over the chosen area. The resulting squares are then allocated to the participants who create an original artwork based on the buildings and public space within it. These pieces of artwork form a collective snapshot of London from one-hundred personal view points, forming a unique showcase of British architectural heritage.The Drawing Weekend - which happened this year on 15th September - is when the drawing takes place. Here's a video of what happened.
These are the participants - I spotted two artists who I recently featured in 'Built" : recording and responding to the construction process - Patricia Cain, ("Soho Construction") Jeanette Barnes (No. 66 Lincoln's Inn Field).
Jeanette Barnes drawing 66 Lincolns Inn Fields and cranes |
- Norman Ackroyd "Study of September Sunlight"
- Sir Terry Farrell ("Courtyard: Comyn Ching and Comyn Ching"),
- Lord Norman Foster "The British Museum - A Working Sketch"
- David Gentleman ("St. James's Square")
- Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (Fitzrovia)
- Zaha Hadid ("Leicester Square")
- and Paul Smith ("360 Degrees")
- as well as an awful lot of architects and designers.
However you can still see:
- the exhibition of the artwork online until the live auction of 25 selected pieces which takes place at Somerset House at 7pm on 14th November 2012.
- buy the catalogue of the artwork - ordered according to designated square in the grid
- artwork on their Facebook page 10x10 London: Drawing the City
PS I was rather pleased to see that some of the people taking part tend to draw in a way which is not too dissimilar to Urban Sketchers (and Urban Sketchers London)!


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2005 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner
With a hit-single track record spanning four decades, Burt Bacharach became one of the most important composers of popular music in the 20th century, almost equal to such classic tunesmiths as George Gershwin or Irving Berlin. His sophisticated yet breezy productions borrowed from cool jazz, soul, Brazilian bossa nova, and traditional pop to virtually define and undoubtedly transcend the staid forms of Brill Building adult pop during the 1960s.
Born May 12, 1928, in Kansas City, he studied cello, drums, and piano as a child, and was later transplanted to New York City by his father, a syndicated columnist. The time spent in New York gave him a chance to sneak into clubs to watch his bebop heroes Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker; he also played in several jazz bands during the 1940s. Bacharach studied music theory and composition at the Mannes School in New York, at Berkshire Music Center, at the New School for Social Research (with Darius Milhaud), at Montreal's McGill University, and at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA. A period in the Army interrupted his concentration of music study, but even while serving in Germany, Bacharach arranged and played piano for a dance band. He also played in nightclubs and backed Steve Lawrence, the Ames Brothers, and Paula Stewart. Bacharach was discharged in 1952, and he married Stewart on December 22nd of the following year.
On returning to the U.S., he began writing songs for Lawrence, Patti Page, the Ames Brothers, and others, but his first hit came from Marty Robbins in late 1957 when Robbins took "The Story of My Life" to the American Top 20 and the number one spot in England. The single was also notable for its co-composer, Hal David, who became Bacharach's songwriting partner and collaborated on most of his big hits. The Bacharach/David team followed up in January 1958 with Perry Como's "Magic Moments," another U.K. chart-topper and a Top Five entry in America. Bacharach's marriage dissolved in 1958, and he left for Europe to tour with Marlene Dietrich. He returned in 1961, and wrote several songs for the Drifters with Bob Hilliard (including "Mexican Divorce" and "Please Stay") before reuniting with Hal David. At an arranging session, he found the singer who became the ultimate vehicle for his songs: Dionne Warwick who was working as a member of the Drifters' backup vocal group, the Gospelaires.
By late 1962, Bacharach and David began focusing most of their composing energy on Warwick, who was the recipient of 15 Top 40 singles from 1962 to 1968 (including the Top Tens "Anyone Who Had a Heart," "Walk on By," "Message to Michael," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Valley of the Dolls," and "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"). The duo also remained dominant in England, where Frankie Vaughan, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw, the Walker Brothers, and Herb Alpert all hit number one with Bacharach/David compositions. As if their schedule wasn't busy enough throughout the '60s, the songwriters contributed film scores for What's New Pussycat?, Alfie, and Casino Royale. The film featuring their most celebrated score, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), won Oscars for Best Original Score and Best Theme Song for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (plus two non-musical Academy Awards). Bacharach and David began working on the musical Promises, Promises in the late '60s; it won a Tony and a Grammy Award (for cast album) during a popular three-year Broadway run. Bacharach hit the charts himself in 1969, with the show's "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" reaching the Top 100. Surprisingly, this was not his only foray into recording; Bacharach had reached number four in the U.K. charts in May 1965 with "Trains and Boats and Planes," and he released several popular solo albums during the late '60s.
The beginning of the '70s looked bright for Burt Bacharach, as the Carpenters took "(They Long to Be) Close to You" to number one in the U.S. in July 1970. The forecast was premature, though, as three of his closest partners -- Hal David, Dionne Warwick, and his second wife Angie Dickinson -- left him. He gathered several accolades for an eponymous 1971 album featuring renditions of his previous hit compositions, but later albums were disappointing and Bacharach's next hit was over a decade in coming. Finally in 1981, he collaborated with Christopher Cross, Carole Bayer Sager, and Peter Allenon the Oscar-winning "Arthur's Theme." Bacharach married Bayer Sager just one year later, and together they wrote Roberta Flack's Top 20 hit "Making Love," as well as "Heartlight" which Neil Diamond took to number five.
Once Bacharach resumed composing he began to hit, and 1986 was one of his finest years, with two American number ones: "That's What Friends Are For" (by an all-star group including Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder) and a duet by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonaldtitled "On My Own." He divorced Sager in 1991, but worked with Dionne Warwick again two years later on "Sunny Weather Love," from her Friends Can Be Lovers album. Also in 1993, Bacharach contributed songs to James Ingram, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Tevin Campbell. Around the same time, many alternative bands began name-checking the hitmaker as an influence, and Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher joined him on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall as well as including a picture of him on the cover of Oasis' Definitely Maybe. BBC-TV focused on Bacharach in a January 1996 documentary, and a three-disc retrospective of his compositions was released by Rhino in 1998. That same year he collaborated with Elvis Costello on the acclaimed Painted From Memory, and was celebrated at an all-star concert at Radio City Music Hall which later formed the basis for the LP One Amazing Night. The 2005 album At This Time found Bacharach writing lyrics for the first time. Tonio K helped with the lyrics, Elvis Costello, Dr. Dre, Chris Botti, and Rufus Wainwright also contributed to the album.


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What is Internet Governance?
Over the past years, the Internet has played a major role in the growth and prosperity of our society in areas of trade, education, health, governmental services, or simply for entertainment. As of year 2012, access to the Internet is recognised as a basic human right which enables individuals to "exercise their right to freedom of opinion and expression" as stipulated by the United Nation Human Right Council.
To ensure a sustainable growth of a stable, secure and robust Internet, it is vital that Governments, Civil and Technical societies along with all other stakeholders engage in dialogues and forums regarding the Internet, its development and related issues on how the Internet should be managed. This is what Internet governance is about.
In line with the above objective, the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in two phases. The first one took place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003, and the second one took place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005. [more on WSIS].
One of the outcomes of the last meeting provided a definition of Internet Governance as follows: '' Internet governance is the development and application by Governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.'' (WGIG 2005)
IG issues broadly covers:
- Open access to governance processes;
- Network security and stability;
- Responsible management of critical Internet resources.
There are several organisations involved in the governance of the Internet globally and addressing the above issues. AFRINIC collaborates closely with these global organisations, amongst others, namely:


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• cockalorum •
Pronunciation: kah-kê-lor-êm • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A little man with an extraordinarily high opinion of himself, who 'crows' about himself a lot. 2. The 'crowing' of a cockalorum, cockamamie boasting, false self-praise.
Notes: Now, everyone will tell you that the plural of this funny word is cockalorums. However, since the word itself is a joke, why not push it to the limits and call a bunch of cocky twerps "cockalora"? The reference also seems to be to bantam roosters, for the sense of this word is usually restricted to small men.
In Play: We don't like to encourage the use of pejorative terms, but this word is so funny it is hard to resist: "That little cockalorum loves to crow about all the actors he met growing up in Beverly Hills." I further discourage anyone from saying anything like, "The little cockalorum is in the boss's office now giving himself credit for all the changes we made over his protestations." But you can see how someone might ignore my advice.
Word History: This word obviously shares a source with cocky, referring to someone who prances around as full of himself as a rooster. It has been suggested that it was built upon the base of an obsolete Flemish verb, kockeloeren "to crow." It might just as well have been the result of monkeying around with cock-a-doodle-doo and the Latin genitive plural ending, -orum. However, the only thing we are sure of is the influence of the Latin ending. The sentiment is related to the old French saying: Le coq est roi sur son fumier "The rooster is king on his dunghill".
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Rakeem Cato threw for 337 yards and three touchdowns, and Marshall used two fourth-quarter scores to rally past Maryland 31-20 Friday in the Military Bowl.
The Thundering Herd (10-4) trailed 20-17 before Cato brought them back. After directing a 63-yard march to put Marshall up 24-20 with 12:05 left, Cato clinched it with an 8-yard touchdown throw to Gator Hoskins with 3:42 to play.
Cato completed 28 of 44 passes – with no interceptions – to help Marshall reach double digits in wins for the first time since 2002. The Thundering Herd came in averaging 43 points per game, but its underappreciated defense played a huge role in this one.
Maryland (7-6) scored only one touchdown after halftime, and A.J. Leggett followed Cato's final TD pass with an interception to set off a celebration among the huge gathering of Marshall fans among the crowd of 30,163.
Making its first bowl appearance under third-year coach Randy Edsall, Maryland closed out its association with the Atlantic Coast Conference by falling to the runner-up in Conference USA. The Terrapins will join the Big Ten next year.
Brandon Ross rushed for 116 yards for Maryland, and C.J. Brown went 14 for 24 for 197 yards.
After a whirlwind first half that produced 30 points and 24 first downs, the teams settled into a defensive struggle in the third quarter. Each of the first four possessions ended in punts, but on the last one Marshall pinned the Terrapins on their own 1.
In the same situation earlier in the game, Maryland ran three times for 2 yards and punted. This time, the Terrapins put together a 17-play drive that included a pair of fourth down conversions and lasted for 7 minutes, 44 seconds. The 99-yard march ended with a 2-yard pass from Brown to tight end Dave Stinebaugh, giving Maryland a 20-17 lead with 14:56 left.
Marshall was quick to respond. Cato completed two third-down passes, and Essray Taliaferro ran in from the 7 to make it 24-20.
Brown subsequently came up short on a third-and-5 bootleg, providing Cato the opportunity to put the game away. Although the Terrapins got the stop they needed, Cato came up big during the next series.
After completing a 28-yard pass to Hoskins on third-and-11, Cato connected with Hoskins again in the end zone. It was Hoskins' second touchdown of the game and 15th of the season, most in the nation for tight ends.
Cato went 16 for 25 for 193 and two touchdowns in the first half to help the Thundering Herd grab a 17-13 lead.
After pinning the Terrapins near their own goal line, Marshall went up 7-0 with a 37-yard drive that ended with Cato's 1-yard touchdown pass to Tommy Shuler.
Maryland answered with a 29-yard touchdown throw from Brown to Levern Jacobs, but the Thundering Herd promptly regained the lead with a lengthy march that produced an 8-yard touchdown pass from Cato to Hoskins.
The back-and-forth duel continued in the second quarter. After Maryland kicked a field goal, Marshall got one of its own for a 17-10 lead.
And then, finally, the trend ended when the Terrapins punted.
Near the end of the half, Maryland moved 81 yards in 10 plays to set up Brad Craddock for his second field goal.


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Metatarsalgia: Ball of Foot Pain
Metatarsalgia denotes a common foot condition characterized by pain and inflammation of the joints and bones of the ball of the foot – the area just before the toes, also called the metatarsal region.
Symptoms of metatarsalgia can develop suddenly, especially after an increase in exercise or high-impact activities, but normally the problems develop over time. Common symptoms of metatarsalgia include:
- Sharp, aching or burning pain in the ball of your foot — the part of the sole just behind the toes
- Pain that intensifies when you stand, walk or run
- Pain that radiates from the balls of the feet into the toes
- Numbness or tingling in the toes
- A feeling in your feet as if you are walking with a pebble in your shoe
- Pain that increases when walking barefoot
Sometimes a single factor can trigger metatarsalgia. More often, multiple factors contribute to the pain, including:
- Over-training or Over-activity. Extensive training and high-impact sports, especially running, places an abnormal amount of stress on the balls of the feet, causing irritation, inflammation and pain.
- Other foot disorders. High arches, hammertoes, bunions, stress fractures and Morton's neuroma can all trigger metatarsalgia symptoms.
- Poor-fitting footwear. High heels, narrow-toed shoes and shoes without adequate padding can all contribute to metatarsal problems.
- Excess weight. Extra weight places excess pressure on your metatarsals.
- Aging. The fat pads on the metatarsals thin out as a person ages, diminishing the ability of the metatarsal bones to protect themselves.
Although generally not serious, metatarsalgia can disrupt your day to day activities, and when left untreated can lead to additional pain in your unaffected foot, back or hips. Treatment to eliminate metatarsalgia symptoms can be as simple as resting, icing the affected area and wearing proper-fitting shoes to significantly reduce swelling and ease pain.
When conservative treatments aren't affective and pain persists, visit Columbus Podiatry & Surgery for a full exam and a proper diagnosis. In most cases, metatarsalgia can be treated non-surgically. An experienced podiatrist at our Columbus office may prescribe specially-designed orthotics or shock-absorbing insoles and arch supports to prevent and minimize future problems with metatarsalgia.
Please visit www.ColumbusFoot.com for more information or call 614-885 FEET (3338) to schedule an appointment with a podiatrist in Columbus, Ohio. Columbus Podiatry & Surgery is located on the North side of Columbus, Ohio near Worthington.
Easy Ways to Prevent and Treating an Ingrown Toenail
Ingrown toenails, also known as onychocryptosis, can be embarrassing, annoying and painful. This common condition occurs when the surrounding skin on one or both sides of the nail grows over the edges of the nail, or when the nail itself penetrates the skin. As the nail digs into the skin, redness, swelling, and pain are often the result.
People develop ingrown toenails for various reasons. Poor nail-trimming is the most common cause, as this encourages the skin to fold over the nail. Other causes include trauma, such as stubbing a toe, or skin conditions, such as fungal infections or nails that are simply too large. In some cases, the condition may even be inherited. Poor-fitting shoes generally aggravate the condition, making it worse.
Many cases of ingrown toenails may be prevented by:
- Wearing well-fitted shoes and socks
- Protecting feet from trauma when possible
- Trimming toenails straight across and avoiding repeated trimming of the nail borders
- Keeping feet clean and dry to prevent infection
If an infection is not suspected of your ingrown, it can usually be safely treated from home by soaking your foot in warm water. Avoid "bathroom surgery" and repeated cutting of the nail as this will only make the condition worse.
When attempts to reduce your symptoms from home fail, or when pain, inflammation, swelling or discharge accompany your ingrown, the toenail is most likely infected and should be treated by a podiatrist at our Columbus OH office. People with diabetes, nerve damage or poor circulation should always seek care immediately if an ingrown nail is detected, regardless of the severity.
A podiatrist can examine the affected toe and determine the best treatment for your condition. For an infection, an antibiotic may be prescribed. Other treatments may involve trimming or removing the infected nail with a minor in-office surgical procedure.
Ingrown toenails may be annoying, but rest assured that they can easily be prevented and treated with the help of your podiatrist. If you think you have an ingrown toenail, visit Columbus Podiatry & Surgery for quick and easy treatment.
Please visit www.ColumbusFoot.com for more information or call 614-885 FEET (3338) to schedule an appointment with a podiatrist in Columbus, Ohio. Columbus Podiatry & Surgery is located on the North side of Columbus, Ohio near Worthington.


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As you can imagine, when we dropped the hook in Bass Harbour, Langkawi, 25 miles away from PSS Shipyard, we did absolutely nothing for a whole week. It was bliss.
Esper Refit 53-55 – Esper Launches!
Finally, after one year and one month in the yard, Esper launches!
Esper Refit 50-52 – one year in the yard! Portabote improvements; interior carpentry
Would you believe it? More to the point, would we have believed it? One year in the boatyard calls for a party. Plus there's some much-requested boat updates in the video clip, which also covers a rather strange phenomenon in the yard.
Esper Refit 47-49 – festivities; rudder design; more carpentry
2015 and we're close to hitting a year in the yard. For those of you asking why we don't just leave and finish the jobs at anchor, Liz has her answer in this week's video clip.
Esper Refit 46 – Christmas Special
As Christmas approaches we are inundated with rain, rain and more rain. It's just like being back in the UK! We still had fun, attending a Burmese wedding and rehousing some little animals.
Esper Refit 45 – tent down, masts up, davits on
Yes, you read that title right. Esper has finally been revealed to the outside world and we witness the first ray of sunshine on that beautiful shiny hull, and we even got the masts up, though not without a headache or two.


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1 egg
2 egg yolks
100 grams caster sugar
1 heaped teaspoon vanilla bean paste
100 grams melted butter, cooled
100 grams fine polenta
100 grams plain flour, sifted
50 grams almond meal
50 grams flaked almonds
icing sugar, for dusting
Butter and line the base of a 20cm loose-bottomed round cake tin.
Place the egg, egg yolks, sugar and vanilla bean paste into a bowl of an electric mixer. Beat until the mixture becomes light and creamy.
With the motor running, drizzle in the cooled butter until amalgamated. Add the flour, polenta and almond meal and beat until just combined. Pour the batter quickly into your prepared pan - smooth out the surface and then cover with the flaked almonds.
Bake in a preheated 170°C oven for about 30-40 minutes or until golden and cooked through. Let it cool slightly before removing from the pan and leave it rest on a wire rack.
Before serving, dust with icing sugar.
This is such an uusual cake - before you make it you have an idea that it might be heavier because of the polenta but it's actually more like a sponge cake. Like all cakes with polenta it has an excellent crust.
Having a bite of this cake takes me back, the flavour is so familiar and reminds me so much of cakes I'd had in Italy.


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The director of the Cannes Film Festival called the allegations of sexual misconduct against Harvey Weinstein "an earthquake" for the movie industry — but he said the quality of films, not gender quotas, remained the top factor in selecting this year's lineup.
Organizers on Thursday unveiled the 18 movies competing for the Palme d'Or prize next month, with a lineup that includes new movies by Spike Lee and Jean-Luc Godard.
"The world is not the same anymore," Thierry Fremaux told reporters, referring to the Weinstein scandal. "But the movies we selected have been chosen for their intrinsic qualities. There will never be a positive discrimination."
Although Fremaux said he recognized the importance of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, he said the selection process for the festival should not include gender quotas, and that all the female directors he has spoken with agreed with him.
Only three female directors — Nadine Labaki, Alice Rohrwacher and Eva Husson — are on the list of 18 competing movies. Fremaux said a fourth female filmmaker could be added to the competition before the May 8-19 event starts on the French Riviera.
"It's true that they are very rare, but there are more and more female directors," Fremaux said. "And I have to say that —Kathryn Bigelow aside — all the female directors who broke through over the last three decades came here to show their movies."
Fremaux added that his team will discuss their pay equality practices. He noted that more women than men already worked for the festival.
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While acknowledging that only one female director has won the festival's top prize — Jane Campion for "The Piano" back in 1993 — Fremaux said two women, Cate Blanchett and Ursula Meier, will preside over the official competition and the Golden Camera juries this year.
He said this year's selection, which also includes Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski's new film "Zimna Wojna" (Cold War), will help promote new faces.
"There are some people one might not have expected to be there," he said.
Among those invited to compete are dissident Iranian film director Jafar Panahi for "Three Faces" and Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov.
Panahi, who won the Golden Bear for best film in Berlin in 2015 but has been banned from leaving his country, was held in custody in 2010 for his criticism of Iran.
Serebrennikov, who is now under house arrest in Russia, will compete with "Leto" (Summer), a movie depicting the life of a Soviet rock musician and the Leningrad underground music scene in the 1980's.
The competition at Cannes this year includes Lee's "BlacKkKlansman," which will open in theaters on Aug. 10 — the one-year anniversary of the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white nationalists marched and a protester was killed.
The film is about the real-life story of Ron Stallworth, a black police officer in Colorado who went undercover in 1978 to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. John David Washington plays Stallworth and Adam Driver plays his partner.
Godard's movie "Le Livre d'Image" (The Image Book) is described as a "revolutionary song in five chapters."
Fremaux also addressed the festival's tense relationship with Netflix a day after Ted Sarandos, the company's chief content officer, said the streaming giant was pulling its films from the French festival.
Cannes had earlier banned any films without theatrical distribution in France from its top Palme d'Or competition, essentially ruling out Netflix movies. In France, films can't be released on home entertainment platforms until 36 months after their theatrical release.
"Despite appearances, we have a fruitful dialogue. Netflix is welcome in Cannes, let's keep talking," Fremaux said.
The dispute, however, has prevented the restoration of Orson Welles' unfinished movie "The Other Side of The Wind" from being included in the festival's out-of-competition program this year.


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Christie Inducted Into Little League Hall Of Excellence
Governor Chris Christie was honored by Little League with an induction into their Hall Of Excellence during the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Christie, who was inducted with his longtime friend author Harlan Coben, noted that his team from Livingston was on game from the LLWS when he was 11-years-old according to the Star Ledger. "So for the last 40 years, I was one game away and I finally got here," he said on the field, surrounded by his family.
"From my perspective there are not many greater moments than to be standing on this field with my family and my friend of 40 years and today go into the Little League Hall of Excellence together,' Christie told the crowd, adding that he and his brother Todd texted during the governor's ride to Williamsport the names of players on their Little League team.
Christie was a catcher and Coben played first base during their time in Little League where the governor, wearing a Rutgers golf shirt, remembered the lessons learned playing baseball. "It taught me right from the beginning that both winning and losing are temporary," he said according to the Star Ledger. "The lessons that you learn from winning and losing stay with you for the rest of your life."
Davie Jane Gilmour, the chairman of the Little League International Board of Directors, said that those lessons have guided Christie throughout his life. "The Little League hallmarks of teamwork, sportsmanship and fair play have guided Governor Christie throughout his professional and personal life," said Gilmour in his introduction of Christie.
What sealed the induction for Gilmour was Christie's ""impassioned efforts" on rebuilding following Superstorm Sandy.
Christie and Coben are the 46th and 47th members of the Hall of Excellence. Among the other members from New Jersey: Bruce Springsteen, who was inducted in 1997, former National League President Leonard Coleman Jr. who joined in 1996 and former Senartor Bill Bradley who was inducted in 1989.


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Batman vs Preditor [VIDEO]
Ever wonder who would win between Predator and Batman? Or what would happen if you threw a James Cameron type Alien in there as well? No need to ponder this situation any longer, all three including the joker all duke it out in a Gotham City ally in this video clip.


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January 31, 2013
Family valentines workshop Feb. 3
Bring the family to the Beach Museum of Art to create valentines and memories from 1:30-3 p.m. Sunday Feb. 3.
We provide all the supplies and clean up. $5 per child, $3 for members. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Reservations not required.


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A white catfish caught in Connecticut last month has smashed a state record and could also be a world record for the species — though the evidence has been eaten.
Ben Tomkunas, 25, caught the 21.3-pound fish late at night in Coventry on Aug. 21. It was longer than 3 feet.
Connecticut Fish and Wildlife confirmed in a Facebook post that the catch was a white catfish and that it easily broke the previous state record for the species of 12.7 pounds (5.76 kilograms).
"We were just sitting back and drinking a couple of beers and next thing you know, my reel just starts screaming like I had a 30-pound striper on there," Tomkunas, of Coventry, told the Hartford Courant.
Tomkunas' friend, Chris Braga, had a digital scale and took a photo of the fish coming in at the record-breaking weight.
The International Game Fish Association has recorded the world record for a white catfish catch to be 19.3 pounds (8.75 kilograms) for a fish caught in 2005 in California.
White catfish are one of several species of catfish in Connecticut, and officials said they scrutinized this catch to confirm it was not a channel catfish, which are generally larger. Other species of catfish, like blue catfish or catfish found in Asia, can dwarf the white catfish.
Tomkunas said he intends to submit a claim to the association to secure the new world record. But he also told the newspaper that he gave the fish to his grandfather the next morning.
"It kind of got eaten," he said.